Views on BG

The snow did not stop about four thousand people to gather late in the evening of December 31 on Alexander Batenberg Square in Sofia to see the New Year in together. Famous Bulgarian pop singers performed at the concert, aired live on the Bulgarian Nation

2001 was also the year when all Bulgarians continued to strive for a better living, President Stoyanov said. He expressed regrets at having to speak about such tragic events in a night when everybody hopes for the better.

Commenting the economic indices in 2001 Finance Minister Milen Velchev said Bulgaria saw some positive developments during the year, despite the global economic recession in Western Europe and the U.S after the tragic events of September 11.

No inflation is expected in producer prices in industry, construction and retail trade, figures of the National Statistics Institute (NSI) show. The business climate indicator has marked a downward tendency in the last quarter in 2001.

Foreign Direct Investment in Bulgaria will keep its historically high levels, following the post-1997 increase in FDI-inflows, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the specialized team for analyses and surveys with the British magazine The Economist, fo

The energy concern RWE, which is based in the German province of Essen, is willing to help the Bulgarian N-plant Kozloduy for the transportation of the exhausted nuclear fuel to storages in Russia where it is further processed, German daily Berliner Zeitu

Boyko Borissov, the Chief Secretary of the Bulgarian Interior Ministry has highest rating among the Bulgarians, a survey of the National Center for Research of the Public Opinion shows. 64% of the Bulgarians approved Borissov’s activities.

British American Tobacco Bulgaria Statement on applying the new excise for imported cigarettes in the country
Sofia, December 26 - Bulgarian American Tobacco is among the two largest tobacco producers in the world and one of the biggest importers in Bulg

“I prayed for the dead children, but naturally, most of all for their parents, because what they are going through is a nightmare,” Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg told journalists before his departure for Madrid on December 23. He underlined that the t

Foreign Minister Passy and Mohamed Ali al-Masirati, Secretary of Libya's General People's Committee for Justice and Public Security, held a joint conference on December 22. Earlier in the day the Libyan People’s Court postponed once again the hearing of t